Social security pay roll book



Oct. 1, 1940. B. STEENEJEFEG r: AL

SOCIAL SECURITY PAY ROLL BOOK Filed March 28, 1938 Patented Oct. 1, 1940UNITED STATES 2,216,633 I SOCIAL SECURITY PAY ROLL BOO-K BenjaminSteinberg, Philadelphia, and Otto H. Kaupp, Llanerch, Pa.

Application March 28, 1938, Serial No. 198,348

1 Claim. (01. 283-66) Under the Federal Social Security Act, reportsmust be filled quarterly; and under various State unemploymentcompensation laws, reports. must be filed in some cases quarterly and inother cases monthly. 7

The principal object of the present invention, therefore, is to providea book which shall be compact, easy to balance, easy to keep, and inwhich complete information is readily available at all times.

Another object of the invention is to provide a book with which it is asimple matter to audit pay rolls.

Another object of the invention is to provide a book which eliminatesposting and which can be balanced each week, and which will show allremuneration paid to employees at a glance.

A further object of the invention is to provide a book in which thenames of the employees do not have to be written each week together withthe amounts earned, and which eliminates the rewriting of names exceptquarterly, semi-annually or annually. In fact, where the labor turnoveris not great, the names may be listed and not re-written for the entireyear.

Other objects will appear from the following description at the endwhereof the invention will be finally claimed.

Generally stated, the invention comprises, a book having a full leaf anda cut leaf presenting two confronting pages or a spread as it issometimes called, said pages ruled in vertical columns for names,addresses, personal history, position, and details of employment; aseries of groups of shingled leaves following the cut leaf, theconfronting page of the cut leaf and the first page of the shingledleaves and the succeeding confronting pages of the shingled leavescolumned to indicate pay and details of pay per month, each groupcovering a quarterly period, the last page at the end of the final groupof shingled leaves being a full leaf and marginally ruled for yearly payand other information, various of said-pages being simultaneouslyvisible in horizontal direction.

The invention also comprises the improvements to be presently describedand finally claimed. In the following description, reference will bemade to the accompanying drawing forming part hereof and in which:

Fig. 1 is a view of a book embodying features of the invention andshowing the same opened at the full leaf, which is the first page, andshowing the succeeding leaves.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the first page of a group of shingledleaves in open position.

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view of the leaves viewed from one of theiredges.

In the drawing and from the front to the back I of the book, idesignates'a full leaf and 2 designates a cut leaf. These present twoconfronting pages as shown in Fig. 1. V

Page 1 is ruled in vertical columns and column a is intended to receivethe names of employees. Column b receives the rateof wages. Column dreceives the addresses. Columns e, f and g receive the date of birth,whether married or single, and when employed. Column 71. receives adescription of the position or character of employment.

On page 2, column 2' receives a statement of the State in which theemployee is employed. Column 70 receives the reason for termination ofemployment, and column 2 receives any necessary general remarks.

Referring to Fig. 2, leaf 2 has been turned over and the exposed page isruled together with the confronting page to indicate in the first columnm necessary memorandum, and in each of the succeeding columns n, o, p, qand 1" appears an appropriate legend for each of five weeks. The legendindicates the number of days employed, the hours worked, the gross payroll, deductions if any, and the net pay roll for each week. Columns nto 1' are alike except that they relate to succeeding weeks in onemonth, say January.

Referring to Fig. 3, the succeeding leaves 4, 6 and 8 are shingledleaves and each of them is prepared to receive the legends relating toFebruary, March and total for first quarter, such as have beendescribed.

Leaf 8, which is the last of the series or groups A of shingled leaves,is ruled at its edge to provide for the total pay roll for the firstquarter. The groups B, C and D are similar to group A and the groups arerepeated so as to show four quarters.

The last leaf 26 of the final group is full width and is ruled to showthe gross pay roll for the year as Well as the federal security or othernumber and also the date when employment was discontinued.

The leaves in groups A, B, C and D are arranged so that the pay roll foreach three months may be combined into a quarterly total without turningof leaves or using working sheets.

From the foregoing description, it will be evident that, by properlyopening the book and reading across the open pages and in line with thename of the employee, one can ascertain at a glance all informationconcerning the employee that is required by the Federal Social SecurityAct as well as by similar acts of various States. In fact, practicallyany information that may be required can be ascertained in a similarmanner.

To those skilled in the art, it will be apparent that the describedstructure of the book greatly facilitates and simplifies the bookkeepingand the entries that have to be made in connection therewith. It isobvious that the described structure of the book makes possible theattainment of the advantages referred to and of other advantages inaccounting.

Throughout this specification and claim, we in tend the following termsto have the following meaning:

Full-sized or full means a leaf of max mum length from the bound orgutter edge to the opposite or free edge.

Intermediate or cut means a leaf of less length from the bound or gutteredge to the free edge than a full leaf.

Shingled means a group of leaves of different length having one edgealigned so that portions of each leaf are exposed adjacent the oppositeor free edge.

We claim: a

A social security pay roll book comprising: covers adapted to overliethe leaves; a binding connecting the leaves to said cover at one of thevertical edges of the leaves and allowing the book to open flat andleaving the opposite vertical edges of the leaves free; a full sizedfirst leaf and a following intermediate cut leaf of less length, saidleaves presenting two confronting pages, said pages being ruled withvertical lines to form a plurality of vertical columns including arelatively wide name column at the free vertical edge of said full leaf,a wage column adjacent said name column, and a general remark column atthe free vertical edge of the opposite cut leaf, all of said columnsbeing appropriately designated adjacent the top edges of the pages; aseries of groups of shingled leaves following said cut leaf, each ofsaid shingled leaves being of substantially different length from theothers in the group and the longest of said shingled leaves being equalin length to said cut leaf, the confronting page of said cut leaf andthe first page of said shingled leaves and the succeeding confrontingpages of said shingled leaves being ruled with vertical lines to form aplurality of vertical date columns, each pair of confronting pages ofsaid cut leaf and of said shingled leaves being arranged with onlysuflicient date columns to record an account of one month by weeks and amonthly total and a quarterly total, the last leaf of the final group ofshingled leaves being a full leaf and ruled with vertical lines to forma vertical yearly total column adjacent the free vertical edge of saidleaf, all of said columns being appropriately designated adjacent thetop edges of the pages; various of said pages being simultaneouslyvisible in a horizontal direction so that a monthly, quarterly, oryearly account can be easily ascertained by glancing at one of the endcolumns of said page; said leaves being also divided by horizontallinesto form individual account spaces extending continuously across allthe faces of the pages throughout the length of said columns; and allsaid leaves having their free vertical edges terminating in a single,unbroken, straight line.

BENJAMIN STEINBERG. OTTO H. KAUPP.

